Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-09-30
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BODELL IN THE STAUNTON
JAIL, AND CLINEDINST
COMING THERE.

COMlNG IHELE.
A CURIOUS MISTAKE WHICH STARTED
THE CANADIAN ExPEDITIoN-BODELL
COMES HoME WITHOUT TROUBLE
CLINEDINsT EXTRADITED-B Cd E L L
BEFORE THE GRAND JURY YESTERDAY
SEVERAL HOURS.
&C., &C., &C.
Geo. M. Bodell. in custody of Common
wealth's Attorney Braxton, arrived in
Staunton on Monday at night, and was
committed to jail. The following telegram
received by Mr.. Braxton, Wednesday
morning, shows that Clinedinst will soon
follow him:
BRANrFoRD, ONTARIO, Sept. Is.
a. G. Braeton.
Clinedinst ordered to be extradited.
W. S. BREWSTER.
And so the chief actors, so far as yet
developed, in the most daring series OF
forgeries and issue of bogus paper that
ever occurred In this section, are likely
soon to be prosecuted in the Staunton
Criminal Court.
HOW A MISTAKE STARTED THE CANA
DIAN EXPEDITION.
1t is rather curious incident that the
arrests of Clinedinst and Bodell were
brought about by laughable mistake. 1t
was discovered some time ago that letters
were being sent from Stanton to George
r. HaYne, in ThornberrY, Canada. TIE
authorities, who were on the hunt, took up
the idea, in the absence of any knowledge
of who Mr.. Hayne was, that it was a
false name, and in those letters some per-
sons unknown were corresponding with
either Clinedinst or Bodell. AS matter
of fact, Mr.. Hayne is an English gentle
man Of wealth and position and connected
by marriage with one of the most promi-
nent families in Staunton; has visited
here, and the letters were written by mem
bers of the family to him. 1t was on this
chase that Mr.. s. M. Wilkes started for
Canada and ran across Clinedinst. Later
on, it will be seen that this mistake came
near giving Mr.. Haines some inconve-
nience.
THE STORY OF BODELL's CAPTURE.
A representative of the VINDICAIoR
had an interview with Commonwealth
Attorney Braxton after his return on
Monday night, and obtained the particu-
lars Of how Bodell came to be arrested.
Mr.. BlaXton left Staunton Friday, Sept.
18th, with his new evidence, and after
getting again the necessary papers at
Richmond and Washington, left the latter
city Saturday evening for Brantford, On
tario. where Clinedinst lay in jail wait
ing his extradition trial. He arrived at
Brantford at II O'Clock Monday morning
only to find that the Judge had continued
the case until the following Wednesday.
He determined to spend the interim in
HUNTING FOR B ODELL.
who, he thought, was going under the
name of G. r. Haines and was at the town
of Thornberry, 200 miles away. Instead Of
going straight to Thornberry he started by
way of Toronto, arriving in Toronto at 10
o'clock Monday night. He went to the
Toronto Chief of Police and told him what
he was after. While there he received a
telegram from the constable at Port Perry
that Bodell was located there. They then
decided that Braxton should go to Port
Perry and merely telegraph to the Chief of
Police at Thornberry. He got to Port
Perry. Tuesday. and registered at the
hotel at a venture, as S. j. Williams. He
was little nonplussed when the hotel
L.. \
said, "Why; that's strange-that's my
name ~ Mr.. Braxton replied vaguely
that there were good many Williams.
| TO remember his now name Mr.. B. put it
| down in book, and was little surprised
| when he lad captured Bodell to be told
| by him that he had adopted the same way
| of remembering the false names he travel
| ed under IN Canada. When Mr.. Braxton
| found the constable at Port Perry, he was
| told by him that Bodell had been there,
but Oh hearing of Clinedinst's arrest had
| put Oh his coat, walked out of the shop
he was at work in without drawing his
week 3 wages, and had not been heard of
| since. His wife who was sick, and her
children, were still at Port Perry. There
| Bodell had passed as "Geo. M. Berry,
No one there, at the time, thought it was
| Bodell. The constable thought he was
still hiding around there. His property
had been levied on by the town authori-
ties for taxes and the constable was sure
he had no money. Mr.. Braxton thought
If he had no money he was most likely in
some town near by, at work, and concluded
that he must be at Peterboro, OrrillIa, or
Lindsay. He returned to Toronto and
got the permission of the Chief uf Police
to telegraph in his name to each of these
towns for BOdell's arrest, sending de-
scription of him. Besides describing bis
person he also described his peculiar walk
and as it turned out il was the description
Of the walk that led to the arrest.
BACK AT BRANTFORD ATTENDING TO
CLINEDINsT's CASE.
On Wednesday he returned to Brant-
ford, arriving there at P. M. and finding
the court having taken up Clinedinst's
case was waiting for him. In addition to
Mr.. Heyd, his former counsel, Clinedinst
had, to assist in the case, his brother-ln-
law, Judge George Calvert of Shenandoah.
who had arrived in Brantford Monday
evening. When the court took up the
case Mr.. Braxton was put on the stand
and kept there for two hours under exam
nation. The counsel for the prisoner ap-
peared quite astonished when he gave his
age at twenty-five and said he was Com
mon wealth. Attorney of his city. "Why,"
he said, "you all go in right soon down
there !" While on the witness stand, a
telegram from Orillia was handed Mr..
Braxton, from the constable there saying
Bodell had been arrested. 1t was mid
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